I took interest in Paris Hilton at one point and got fascinated with her voice.

Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.

I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.

I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.

Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.

If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with.

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Make peace with yourself and you make peace with the world. - Charmainism

Film is like a drug. It is a shelter when you cannot deal with reality.

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

My first occupation was to map the country.

I think America is on the right track.

Beware the ides of March.